1/ There have only been ~6 true innovations in management in 200 years. The rest is executive therapy. I'll share my list with one caveat...
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2/ ...Caveat: to count by my definition it is a management innovation if it changes game rules. Improvements in playing strategy excluded.
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3/ ...As a result, each legit innovation reflects a change in boundary conditions/external forces. Not internal. So most due to govt, tech.
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In the sense of ability to declare and conduct wars with legitimate sanction from home country.
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In the 18th century, corporations could legally maintain entire armies, start wars and openly have execs hold corp posts.
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We've come a LONG way from East India Company. If you think Halliburton is worse than EIC, you have no clue how bad it was
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This might provide historical perspective. Also try Vanderbilt's biography by Stiles, ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-b
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Also compare today to banana-republic era of 1920s-30s. Way worse. Today's corp violence looks like a joke relatively.
